Work Update 29.11.10

At the moment we are trying to complete our animatic, its almost there, but the editing and cutting is so much harder than first expected! We have all the images ready to upload for our storyboard. Then once we've done all that, we will be ready to commence filming.

possible album back cover.

This album cover that I have created using an image found on google inserting the same layers as in the other draft that has been made. although we cannot use the image above, we may choose to recreate it to get the same effect. We used 'The Pretty Reckless' - Light Me Up's album cover as inspiration. This is because both covers use shocking images that are meant to provoke outrage.

Artist Update.

Kaneo has recently become part of Wiz Khalifa's musical entourage, Taylor Gang, named after the Converse Chuck Taylor shoes. Due to this, we are looking to incorporate elements of their style into the video if possible, due to the large influence he has had on our artist.

Digipak amendments.

Because it is not possible to use a non-original image as part of our work, we can't use the album back cover that we have mentioned in the post below. We intend to recreate it, to the best of our ability due to the fact that we believe that it is perfect for the artist and the message we are trying to portray.

New Ideas for video.

Throughout the video, there will be a narrative alongside some interspersed random images. these random images may not as random as first thought with their being some sort of correlation with them and the lyrics of the song. We thought as a group that the protagonist should be in front of a line of women that were masked, apart from one whose face is showing. In the beginning of the film he will be shown talking to one of the masked women and then throughout the rest of the film, he will make his way down the line to the unmasked woman.

1st draft of the back cover

This is the first effort of our back cover which has the tracklist on it featuring all the songs on the cd inside. It also has the hyperlink to the artist's facebook channel on it; this is due to the fact that he is an artist that uses viral methods to his advantage a large portion of the time. It also has the parental advisory label on it, his music has swearing and features mainly adult themes throughout.

Mid Production Evaluation.

Conventions -

The genre of R&B music videos are similar to hip hop in the way that many often portray women in revealing clothing in simple settings. The videos also generally portray wealth and power through the use of jewellery, clothing and flash cars.

Main production task and ancillary tasks

The different parts of our task that we will do needs to have a coherent theme throughout whether it be the same colour palette or the same theme as in the case of Janelle Monae with the ArchAndroid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ArchAndroid_(Suites_II_and_III)

In our instance, we have decided to use black and white in our video and also incorporate it into our marketing and advertising with our magazine advert and album digipak.

Media technologies

At this early stage, no video editing software has been used, but will feature heavily later on in the project. at this point, we have focused on using Photoshop and similar products.